Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. - Ralph Waldo Emerson,

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them

In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. The Conservative

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.